Author: Gibson, Ann and Simona Cupic
Title: Elaine de Kooning: Portraits
Description: Washington, DC, The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, 2015. With Delmonico/Prestel. Hardcover. Sunflower linen/boards. Color-illus. jacket with bw lettering on sunflower yellow spine. 144 pages, 23,0 x 30,5 cm, 95 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. March 2015 to January 2016. "This book explores the portraiture of Elaine de Kooning, an enormously talented artist whose widely admired body of work—both abstract and figurative—is overdue for a contemporary reassessment. John F. Kennedy, Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham, and Fairfield Porter were just some of the figures who sat for portraits by Elaine de Kooning. Famous for her marriage to the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Elaine was herself a groundbreaking artist and writer who challenged many conventions during her career. Although she portrayed women, she was most engaged with portraits of men, sometimes painting multiple portraits of her subjects in order to explore and capture their most compelling likeness. She focused intently on her subjects—as she wrote in 1965, “Like falling in love painting a portrait is a concentration on one particular person and no one else will do.” This insightful book explores de Kooning’s portraits as well as her artistic process and her position in the rise of Postmodernism. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and archival photos, this book is an important contribution to the literature on Abstract Expressionism, women artists, and feminism during a transformative period, and will also appeal to lovers of painting of all kinds." - from the Prestel web site. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page. Sticker on back pasted end page.
Keywords: American Artists; Elaine de Kooning ; de Kooning, Elaine ; ;
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Title: Elaine de Kooning: Portraits
Description: Washington, DC, The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, 2015. With Delmonico/Prestel. Hardcover. Sunflower linen/boards. Color-illus. jacket with bw lettering on sunflower yellow spine. 144 pages, 23,0 x 30,5 cm, 95 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. March 2015 to January 2016. "This book explores the portraiture of Elaine de Kooning, an enormously talented artist whose widely admired body of work—both abstract and figurative—is overdue for a contemporary reassessment. John F. Kennedy, Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham, and Fairfield Porter were just some of the figures who sat for portraits by Elaine de Kooning. Famous for her marriage to the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Elaine was herself a groundbreaking artist and writer who challenged many conventions during her career. Although she portrayed women, she was most engaged with portraits of men, sometimes painting multiple portraits of her subjects in order to explore and capture their most compelling likeness. She focused intently on her subjects—as she wrote in 1965, “Like falling in love painting a portrait is a concentration on one particular person and no one else will do.” This insightful book explores de Kooning’s portraits as well as her artistic process and her position in the rise of Postmodernism. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and archival photos, this book is an important contribution to the literature on Abstract Expressionism, women artists, and feminism during a transformative period, and will also appeal to lovers of painting of all kinds." - from the Prestel web site. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page. Sticker on back pasted end page.
Keywords: American Artists; Elaine de Kooning ; de Kooning, Elaine ; ;
Price: US$ 29.99 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 159438
- Book number: 159438
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